KK Rabotnički

KK Rabotnički (КК Работнички) is a basketball club based in Skopje, North Macedonia. They currently play in the Macedonian First League and ABA League Second Division. The club has won the Macedonian championship 15 times and the Macedonian Cup 10 times.

History
The club was founded in 1946 in Skopje. In 1964, KK Rabotnički became a member of the first federal "A" league in the former Federation of six republics Yugoslavia and competed there on a regular basis until 1990. In the 1991–92 season, the team played in the Federal YUBA Liga. They have never won a Federal championship but they were finalists in the Federal Yugoslav Cup on two occasions in 1976 and 1983. Since the Macedonian Republic League became the new Macedonian First League, Rabotnički have been the most successful Macedonian basketball team of all time, winning a record 15 league titles and 9 national cups.
 * In the season 2023/24 Rabotichki was the host of the Qualifying tournament Group A of 2023–24 FIBA Europe Cup.Playing against Donar (basketball club),CS Rapid București (men's basketball) and  Sabah BC 🇦🇿.

Domestic competitions [[file:Coat of arms of the President of North Macedonia.svg|20px]]
Macedonian Republic League Macedonian Republic Cup Macedonian League Macedonian Cup Macedonian Super Cup Winner
 * Winners (9): 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1960, 1961, 1963, 1964
 * Winners (4): 1976, 1983, 1985, 1988
 * Winners (15): 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2018
 * Winners (10): 1993, 1994, 1998, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2011, 2015, 2019
 * Winners (2): 2001, 2011

European achievements Shield of the European Union.svg
FIBA Saporta Cup FIBA Europe Conference South Balkan International Basketball League
 * Semi-finalist (1): 1975–76
 * Runners-up (1): 2003–04
 * Runners-up (1): 2008–09

KK Rabotnicki in European competitions
In their rich European history KK Rabotnicki competed in many European competitions. Their most successful period was in the 1990s. They competed for eleven seasons in four different cups.

BIBL League Seasons
 * 2009: (7-5) 2nd Silver medal with cup.svg
 * 2010: (3-7) 9th

Seasons and results of Rabotnicki in Europe:

1975 FIBA European Cup

1993 Saporta Cup

1995 FIBA European League

1995 Europe Champions Cup

1996 FIBA Saporta Cup

1997 FIBA Saporta Cup

1999 FIBA Saporta Cup

2000 Radivoj Korać Cup

2002 FIBA Euro Challenge

2003 FIBA Euro Challenge – South Conference

2004 FIBA Euro Challenge

2017 FIBA Europe Cup

Rivalries
KK Rabotnički Skopje's fiercest and long standing city rival is MZT Skopje, the other large and popular basketball club in Macedonia. They also have supporters in the capital city named Family Aerodrom. The rivalry started after the Independence of Macedonia, and the matches between these rivals have been labeled as the Eternal derby.

Notable players

 * 🇲🇰 Goran Veselinovski
 * 🇲🇰 Toni Simić
 * 🇲🇰 Gjorgji Čekovski
 * 🇲🇰 Goran Samardziev
 * 🇲🇰 Dime Tasovski
 * 🇲🇰 Aleksandar Dimitrovski
 * 🇲🇰 Pero Blazevski
 * 🇲🇰 Ognen Stojanovski
 * 🇲🇰 Pero Antić
 * 🇲🇰 Bojan Trajkovski
 * 🇲🇰 Dimitar Mirakovski
 * 🇲🇰 Aleksandar Kostoski
 * 🇲🇰 Dušan Bocevski
 * 🇲🇰 Jordančo Davitkov
 * 🇲🇰 Gjorgji Knjazev
 * 🇲🇰 Dejan Jovanovski
 * 🇲🇰 Mirza Kurtović
 * 🇲🇰 Todor Gečevski
 * 🇲🇰 Srdjan Stanković
 * 🇲🇰 Marjan Gjurov
 * 🇲🇰 Riste Stefanov
 * 🇲🇰 Goce Gerasimovski
 * 🇲🇰 Vlatko Vladičevski
 * 🇲🇰 Vrbica Stefanov
 * 🇲🇰 Darko Sokolov
 * 🇲🇰 Budimir Jolović
 * 🇲🇰 Emil Rajković
 * 🇲🇰 Dimitar Karadžovski
 * 🇲🇰 Vlado Ilievski
 * 🇲🇰 Toni Grnčarov
 * 🇲🇰 Vasko Najkov
 * 🇲🇰 Marjan Srbinovski
 * 🇲🇰 Jane Petrovski
 * 🇲🇰 Marko Simonovski
 * 🇲🇰 Aleksandar Ugrinoski
 * 🇲🇰 Eftim Bogoev
 * 🇲🇰 Boris Nešović
 * 🇲🇰 Đorđe Vojnović
 * 🇲🇰 Goran Dimitrijević
 * 🇲🇰 Enes Hadžibulić
 * 🇲🇰 Ivica Dimčevski
 * 🇲🇰 Bojan Krstevski
 * 🇲🇰 Kiril Nikolovski
 * 🇲🇰 Boban Stajić
 * 🇷🇸 Marko Ivanović
 * 🇷🇸 Zoran Jovanović
 * 🇷🇸 Miško Marić
 * 🇷🇸 Dragoljub Vidačić
 * 🇷🇸 Dragan Smiljanić
 * 🇷🇸 Vladimir Dragutinović
 * 🇷🇸 Vladimir Filipović
 * 🇷🇸 Miljan Pavković
 * 🇷🇸 Vladimir Popović
 * 🇷🇸 Srdjan Božić
 * 🇷🇸 Predrag Joksimović
 * 🇺🇸 Kendrick Johnson
 * 🇺🇸 Marcus Ginyard
 * 🇺🇸 Russell Robinson
 * 🇺🇸 Sean Evans
 * 🇺🇸 Paul Culbertson
 * 🇺🇸 Antoni Wyche
 * 🇺🇸 William Coleman
 * 🇺🇸 Phil Zevenbergen
 * 🇺🇸 Hameed Kashif
 * 🇺🇸 Gary Ware
 * 🇺🇸 Vernand Hollins
 * 🇺🇸 Vincent King
 * 🇲🇪 Igor Bijelić
 * 🇲🇪 Danilo Mitrović
 * 🇲🇪 Stojan Ivković
 * 🇲🇪 Luka Pavićević
 * 🇸🇴 Mohamed Abukar
 * 🇧🇦 Goran Ikonić
 * 🇧🇦 Bariša Krasić
 * 🇹🇷 Bora Paçun
 * 🇸🇪 Rudy Mbemba
 * 🇨🇦 William Njoku
 * 🇧🇬 Chavdar Kostov
 * Lazar Lečić
 * Predrag Bogosavljev
 * Nikola Matovski
 * Slavko Matovski
 * Blagoja Georgievski
 * Janko Lukovski
 * Stefan Todorovski
 * Slobodan Bocevski
 * Aleksandar Knjazev
 * Dragan Radosavljević
 * Steruli Andonovski
 * Stevan Gešovski
 * Boban Samardžiski
 * Branko Kacarski
 * Kosta Hadžitrifunov
 * Borče Serafimovski

Head coaches

 * 🇲🇰 Marin Dokuzovski
 * 🇲🇰 Steruli Andonovski
 * 🇲🇰 Aleksandar Knjazev
 * 🇲🇰 Tihomir Matevski
 * 🇲🇰 Marjan Lazovski
 * 🇲🇰 Lazar Lečić
 * 🇲🇰 Emil Rajković
 * 🇲🇰 Marjan Srbinovski
 * 🇲🇰 Dimitar Mirakovski
 * 🇲🇰 Goran Krstevski
 * 🇲🇰 Igor Gacov